He died on March 28, 1950 in the crash of a
military transport plane while enroute from his post as Ambassador to Canada
to New York. He was buried in Section 30 of Arlington National Cemetery.

His wife, Dulcil Hoffman Beau Steinhardt, is
buried with him.

A native of New York City, Laurence Adolph
Steinhardt served in the U.S. Army during the First World War. Under President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, he served first as Minister to Sweden, then Ambassador
to Peru, before being appointed to the Soviet Union less than six months
before the start of the Second World War.

The German invasion of the Soviet Union in
1941 prompted the evacuation east to Kuybyshev (today Samara) of foreign
embassies. Steinhardt departed for Kuybyshev in late 1941, leaving Second
Secretary Llewellyn E. Thompson in Moscow with a skeleton staff.

After leaving Russia, Steinhardt served the
remainder of the war as Ambassador to Turkey.

Later President Truman appointed him Ambassador
to Czechoslovakia, and then Ambassador to Canada, where he died in a plane
crash.

Steinhardt served during a difficult period,
during the time of the Hitler-Stalin pact, the German-Soviet division of
Poland, the fall of France, and the lead-up to the Nazi invasion of Russia
in 1941, when the United States was still formally neutral but quietly
aided Great Britain. In June of 1941, immediately after the German attack,
President Roosevelt promised military aid to the Soviet Union.

Name: Laurence A. SteinhardtState of Residency: New YorkNon-career appointeeTitle: Ambassador Extraordinary and PlenipotentiaryAppointment: August 12, 1948Presentation of Credentials: November 1, 1948Termination of Mission: Died near Ramsayville,
March 28, 1950 Note: Commissioned during a recess of the
Senate; recommissioned after confirmation on Mar 2, 1949